match of the day sees andy murray face stefanos tsitsipas. there s a host of grand slam champions elsewhere too and keeping across it all at the all england club is chetan pathak. chetan, bring us up to speed. the rain going on with the death first and second round matches played this in time but the sun is out in tennis is relentless. cheer on centre court behind me when liam brody the british wildcat he was a upset last year is playing casper ruud who is the fourth seed who has reached three of the last four grand slam finals and brodie has levelled things up and is two set since heading to a shoot out on centre court and whoever wins the deciding set will be in for the third round and other casper ruud is not a natural glass course player and his biggest success have come in a different court and he says he is still figuring out at the surface but the whole crowd is getting behind him. he beat british world champion before. three time grand slam champion is through to the
for many of us today it is going to be dry, sunny and warm, except across the very far north of scotland and parts of eastern england, where we hang onto more cloud. that will suppress the temperatures. details later in the programme. good morning. it s tuesday, the 30th of may. new measures to crackdown on the use of vapes by children in england, are set to be unveiled by the government. ministers have pledged to close a loophole allowing retailers to give free samples to children, and a ban on nicotine free vapes for under 18 s is also being considered. our health editor hugh pym has the details. a recent laboratory test for bbc news on illegal vapes confiscated at a school showed some had more than twice the safe amount of lead, and nine times the safe amount of nickel. the prime minister said he was shocked by this report, and said he was taking further action to clamp down on rogue firms who unlawfully target children with these products. the measures include closing a l
appropriately, from the artificial intelligence summit at bletchley park. the other big story this week, though, has been the quite eye popping testimony at the public inquiry into how the government handled various phases of the covid epidemic. and, i mean, it has massively, massively taken me back to those scary, uncertain days in early spring 2020. and i spent a lot of those days sat in this very studio and the person sat across from me and being very reassuring at all times was laura k, who s back in the studio. not in the studio. no, i m not. but i m logistically distanced today, not socially distanced. and i m very pleased to hear that i was reassuring back in those early days of march 2020. you were one of the only people i saw! well, i m pleased. well, it was very nice. we were a tiny little band of people, carrying on, trying to do ourjobs as everybody wondered what on earth was going on. and it s been a very strange experience watching this, hasn t it? because i was
0 tions. waters. good luck with those options. thank waters. good luck with those options. thank you. - thank you. it s been described as the most widespread miscarriage ofjustice in uk history the wrongful convictions of hundreds of sub postmasters, who were accused of stealing money when, in fact, a new it system was faulty. today, the head of the public inquiry has called for action to stop issues blocking compensation, describing the schemes as a patchwork quilt, with some holes in it . many of those wrongly convicted are yet to receive full compensation. between 2000 and 2014, the post office prosecuted 736 sub postmasters and sub postmistresses an average of one a week based on information from a recently installed computer system called horizon. some went to prison, following convictions for false accounting and theft. a settlement in 2019 granted more than 500 postmasters £113 million, plus legal fees. but over the years, many were financially ruined and have describe
after 20 years, campaigners won a legal battle to have their cases reconsidered on the basis that the computer system was flawed. a total of 86 criminal convictions have so far been overturned, but many victims are still waiting for compensation and some have since died. our business correspondent emma simpson is in central london. tell us more about what the head of the inquiry is calling for today, emma? , g . the inquiry is calling for today, emma? , . ., the inquiry is calling for today, emma? . ., ., the inquiry is calling for today, emma? ., , emma? yes, jane, the chair of this ublic emma? yes, jane, the chair of this public inquiry emma? yes, jane, the chair of this public inquiry has emma? yes, jane, the chair of this public inquiry has taken emma? yes, jane, the chair of this public inquiry has taken a - emma? yes, jane, the chair of this public inquiry has taken a big - public inquiry has taken a big interest in the issue of compensation. they said today that what had e